Pam Fletcher, Delta’s chief sustainability officer, outlines the airline’s strategy for achieving net zero-emissions and more sustainable travel by 2050, including eliminating single-use plastics, diverting waste from landfills, identifying more sustainable products that elevate the customer experience and encouraging net-zero supply chains
Lufthansa Technik’s FY2022 results paint a positive picture, with its third-highest revenues ever, a record adjusted EBIT, and new contracts worth €9.6 billion. “We are well prepared for a market that is as attractive again now as it was before the crisis,” said CEO Soeren Stark
Data allows us to make decisions based on a series of information points, and the faster that data can be accessed and analysed, the quicker intelligent actions can be taken. This is key to success across the whole industry, says Ryan Stone, president of SmartSky Networks
Themes of the March 2023 issue include sustainable seating design, circular sustainability, LEO connectivity, IFE trends and galley design
Jet2.com has announced that it has selected the new Series 9 fixed-back seat from Acro Aircraft Seating. The seating will be installed on Jet2.com’s 98 firm ordered Airbus A321/A320 neo aircraft, and could eventually extend up to 146 aircraft
Vaayu Group has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to be launch customer for ST Engineering’s Access expandable cabin lavatory, which will be fitted on A320 and B737 aircraft. “We believe Access will change the dynamics of the sector”, says Vaayu’s chairman
Lufthansa has officially unveiled its €2.5bn Allegris aircraft interiors upgrade programme, with first-class suites for the A350s, and a complex, challenging and exciting scheme to meet the broad and changing needs of business-class travellers
Today marks a year since the invasion of Ukraine, and large European airlines aren’t going to suffer as badly as once feared, while an uneven playing field has been created in the China-Europe market. Conroy Gaynor from Bloomberg Intelligence looks at the aviation sector one year on from the Ukraine War
Qantas has unveiled prototypes of the first and business-class cabins for its ultra-long-haul A350-1000s that can fly between Australia and, well, anywhere else really. Qantas has opted for a bespoke first class suite from Safran, and is launch customer for its Unity business class. With high levels of privacy and comfort, 20-hour flights will just fly by for passengers in the premium classes
Qantas has unveiled prototypes of the first and business-class cabins for its 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, which will begin flying passengers non-stop from Australia to New York and London from late 2025. Both first and business class will feature spacious private suites – and all even more comfortable than on the airline’s A380s and B787s
